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Curry Base Chat / Re: Khris Dhillon curry gravy
« on: May 21, 2006, 09:13 AM »
Finally went to a  slightly modifed plan B last night.  Ten bottles of wine between four.  Oh my head!  Curry went down a treat eventually.  Raan was dry, as expected but no one seemed to notice.  Chicken Bhuna and veg curry was a success but I still wasn't overly happy with the taste.

Bye for now.

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Khris Dhillon curry gravy
« on: May 19, 2006, 08:56 PM »
Well I've made two curries, one Chicken Bhuna, the other mixed veg.  Both to the KD EXACT recipe. 

I have to tell you, people, it's not good.  Not exactly tasteless but not exactly tasty either.  I may be saved by the raan I knocked up for which I got a recipe off the web somewhere, 'cos it smells gorgeous.

As i mentioned earlier I have some friends around tomorrow and would like to impress.  Short of hiring a pole dancer to distract them, I've come up with two possibilities:-

Plan A is to get everyone well-oiled with Becks lager so they don't notice what they're eating and tell them that I didn't make stuff too spicy 'cos I wasn't sure that they'd like it.

Plan B is to give them plenty of that 8% King Cobra beer that buzz mentioned to make doubley sure Plan A works.

Plan C is to tell them I had a power cut and wheel the lot of them around the corner to the Indian restaurant.

After this it's back to the drawing board and try some other base sauces as recommended here.


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Lets Talk Curry / Re: On That ?Restaurant Taste? and ?Secret Ingredients?
« on: May 18, 2006, 08:43 PM »
Nice one, Les.

Yup, I'd agree with you that sometimes you get a iffy one and sometimes you get a absolute stonker, as if to restore your faith in BIR's.

To illustrate the point, I had one of the best takeaway Dhansak's ever at my local.  A week later I had a takeaway and it was disappointing.  Went for a sit-down the next week and it was superb.  You just can't rely on it in my experience.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Has anyone tried the new King Cobra?
« on: May 18, 2006, 08:37 PM »
8%?  Good grief!  My local BIR goes into panic mode if there's any more than about four people in the restaurant and they then take AGES to serve you.  If you're on this stuff you'll probably eat just about anything when it arrives!

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Singapore Noodle Sauce
« on: May 18, 2006, 01:22 PM »
OK, I've found some.  It's by a company called Oriental Secrets.  Haven't tried it yet but it looks like it has the right ingredients.

See this link, moderators, not sure about hotlinking so delete if I'm out of order.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chia14/uff/noodles.htm

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Lets Talk Curry / Singapore Noodle Sauce
« on: May 13, 2006, 05:44 PM »
Slightly off-topic, (so please delete whenever you like, moderators), but does anyone remember a small jar of Singapore Noodle Sauce that Tesco used to sell?  I seem to remember that it might have been sharwoods or Blue Dragon but the old alcohol and curry-sodden grey matter can't place it.  I checked their websites but no sign of it.  It was fairly hot, my wife hated it and I'd like to track some more down if possible.  Any takers?

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Pictures of Your Curries / Re: My latest addition
« on: May 13, 2006, 05:26 PM »
Looks like someone walked out with it under their coat after a night at the Tandoori!  Well done!

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Khris Dhillon curry gravy
« on: May 13, 2006, 05:23 PM »
Mark,

Do you use lamb leg or shoulder?  And does it come up as tender as you like?

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Khris Dhillon curry gravy
« on: May 10, 2006, 08:20 PM »
Thanks everyone.

Well I've got some friends coming round on the 20th so I'm hoping to make an impression with a raan and a veg curry.  If I get the time I'll try one of the other bases beforehand.  Otherwise they'll have to put up with the KD special.

One point though, when I cooked the chicken as directed by KD, having taken some of the original mixutre to one side, the smell was superb!  and sooo genuine.  Almost enough to put me off my beer!

More later.

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Khris Dhillon curry gravy
« on: May 08, 2006, 10:30 AM »
Well I cooked the Chicken Bhuna from the Khris Dhillion book last night.  I followed it to the letter apart from a slightly different garam masala.

Sad to say I was disappointed.  It tasted,well, bland quite frankly.  Perhaps this recipe might have ben OK once, but it just didn't have the sort of intensity I have been used to.  It also seemed to retain too much oniony/garlicky flavour.  Overall my wife was reasonably happy though.

So I will try one of the other recommended sauce bases here.  Any comments about the KD sauce?  Anyone feel the same as I do?

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